We already have one party acting like children and thats bad enough. We can’t afford two.

But I do think you’re being a bit too easy on the elected Republicans who sabotaged the UAE Ports deal. “Frightened” I could sympathize with and, while supporting less cowardly opponents to unseat them, I’d at least wish for them to do well in the private sector.

But I don’t see fear as a motivating factor in this disgusting display of political opportunism. I see self-obsessed, power-grasping little hate mongers attempting to fuel and stoke constituent fear to their own political benefit.

Every one of those representatives and senators should be targeted for defeat in their next election(s).

And that means, every one of us should be out beating the bushes NOW to find candidates worthy of our support, and start working toward THEIR election victories, whether in 2006, ’08, or 2010.

It is an unfortunate truism that we have the representation, and the government, we deserve. There’s only one way I know of that we can deserve, and get, something better (and getting rid of the current Party candidate selection method is an essential first step).

Merry Whitney

Amen, ST

Well the uber rightis dancing in the streets – as Dubai buckles on the proposed deal:…

When fear hits a mob you end up with groups like the KKK – which was an organization and a mob think all centered around fear of others who were different. Sorry, but that is a fact of the KKK. So when you see even minor valid comparisons it is good time to do a real hard re-assessment of ones positions..

Lou Dobbs is on CNN now celebrating “the will of the people” with
the CNN anchor who is married to an Iranian. She knows not
what she and CNN are doing.

Lou Dobbs is really pleased with “A FRESH WIND BLOWING IN
WASHINGTON”!

STUPID STUPID UNTHINKING PEOPLE!

Congress really needs to wake the hell up, and soon. We’re going to have to deal with Iran pretty soon, and we need a place from which to launch attacks into that country. The U.A.E. is in the ideal location. P*ssing them off is NOT a good idea if you expect to have to deal with Iran. What a freaking nightmare — an Islamofascist dictatorship could go nuclear, because we couldn’t act in time, because a FORMER ally got tired of sticking their necks out for us, because our duly elected representatives got panicky about the polls and drafted an amendment without concern for the consequences, because people have been told that the President is basically handing our ports over to a terrorist state, because the Democrats wanted to help the unions, because Dubai Ports World is apparently more efficiently run (or more union-friendly, or both) than P&O.

AJ, I’m starting to hope like hell right now that somebody in the White House reads your blog.

In fact, it is often the jihadists themselves who have shed more Muslim blood than any other group, including the US. Witness the death tolls in Kashmir, Algeria, Thailand, and Chechnya for starters. In Algeria alone, more than 150,000 Muslims were k…..

They hysteria over the UAE deal has reached fever pitch amongst the GOP to the point I’m really close to leaving the Republican party and changing my affiliaton to “Independent” (I wrote about that earlier today). The pandering on this issue by Republicans based on *emotional* arguments is greatly disappointing to me. Instead of showing spine, they’re blindly following the polls, joining in on the mob mentality (as you suggested), and are working feverishly to re-estabilish their ‘national security credentials.’

On losing readers over your opinion, don’t let that get you down. While it is important to have readers (afterall, you don’t want to just be talking to yourself) the bottomline is that you have to blog about and express your opinion on what you feel is important. When a blogger stops doing that and starts reshaping his/her opinions based solely on the fact that he or she doesn’t want to offend any readers, it’s not worth blogging. I know you’re not that kind of blogger, and it’s one of many reasons I added you to my blogroll long ago.

Keep up the good work.

–ST

They’re going to try to kill the deal now – to leave the President with a fait accompli – without an apology if theyare wrong.

By all accounts, this story is leading the pack in the blogosphere in terms of discussion (see Memeorandum for more). Quite frankly, yours truly is beyond rehashing it at this point because some of what I have to say isn’t really fit for print….